World
Elon Musk says there is no point saving money, because robots will make everything nearly free
The argument has a long history and one enormous hole: it assumes the gains from automation reach everybody, which is a political question…
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Bangladesh
TikTok deleted 14.79 million videos uploaded from Bangladesh in three months — and put 205,001 of them back
About 0.9% of everything uploaded here, against a global rate of 0.5%. Automated systems caught 99.8% of it before a single user complained.
Technology
A camera in the milking parlour spots a lame cow before the farmer can, and the farmer has been watching cows for fifty years
Northern Irish dairy farms are running cameras, robotic milking and record-keeping apps. What made it possible was not the AI — it was…
Technology
A police force taking 1,000 non-emergency calls a day has put a chatbot on its website. Callers wait 20 minutes
South Yorkshire Police says Bobbi gives quick answers to common non-emergency questions so call handlers are freed up. It cannot report a…
Technology
Inside the Chinese factory where robots build robots: one humanoid every ten minutes, 10,000 a year
UBTech's new plant in Liuzhou uses its own Cruzr robots to feed the line that assembles its Walker S humanoids. Each finished robot gets a…
Technology
Zoom’s Virtual Agent 3.0 settles the ticket itself — and the metric it is aimed at can be improved by failing
First-contact resolution counts whether the customer came back. A bot that answers wrongly and a customer who gives up produce the same…
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A Chinese humanoid just ran 17.7 km/h — faster than any two-legged robot before it — and it dances, climbs stairs and costs less than a flat in Dhaka
Unitree Robotics’ H1 Evolution V3.0 set a speed record for humanoid robots at 11 mph, keeps its balance on its own, bends knees and ankles…